V. Suryanarayan

Prof. V. Suryanarayan is one of India’s leading specialists in South and Southeast Asian Studies. For more than two decades he was associated with the Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Madras, first as the founding Director and later as Senior Professor. He was a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for one term. He is a member of the distinguished faculty of Symbiosis University, Pune. He has written extensively on contemporary South and Southeast Asia.

October 8, 2026

Columns/Geopolitics

Venezuela in a Time of Geopolitical Climate Change

Latin America is undergoing a sharp political shift to the right as US influence expands and Venezuela faces unprecedented pressure following the removal of Nicolás Maduro and the rise of Delcy Rodríguez.

Columns/Geopolitics

October 7 Changed Israel. Has It Changed Netanyahu?

Three years after October 7, 2023, Israel is still confronting the political and strategic consequences of the Hamas attack and the war that followed. Netanyahu faces an election shaped by questions over the intelligence and security failures preceding the assault,

October 8, 2026

Mother Turns Grief Into a Search for Meaning After Gaza Hostage Death

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

Rachel Goldberg-Polin does not describe grief as a process that steadily diminishes with time. Since the death of her son Hersh, who was abducted

Germany’s Postwar Transport Hero Was Deeply Involved in Nazi Forced Labour

Geopolitics/History

When Max-Erich Feuchtinger died in 1960, he was remembered as one of West Germany’s leading transport planners. His designs had shaped the reconstruction of

Sri Lanka: Anatomy of Baleful Crisis

August 27, 2022

Politics/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The following article is based on the keynote address by the author at the recent seminar titled, The Conundrum of an island: Sri Lanka – Present Crisis, Geo-Political Challenges and Way Ahead,

Sri Lanka: Time to Initiate PDS

August 25, 2022

Columns/Politics

Sri Lanka has a long way to go before resolving its economic problems, President Ranil Wickremesinghe warned in his original policy statement earlier this month. The situation is still grave, and it